from The Recognitions

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Even less similarity to Buddenbrooks:  an eldest son subjugates himself to the family business, for which he has no aptitude, in accordance with his father's wishes.  The daughter is desperate to be dutiful, but leads a similarly disappointing, unfulfilled life.  The youngest son is an oddball, hedonist, who may have the most fun, but is kind of pathetic and unlikable.  The Traverse family shines by comparison.

Laura 

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

>
>I think it is correct that Bros k. is NOT buried and alluded to.
>
>And although I have never finished--barely started once---Buddenbrooks,
>I have a hidded belief that our three brothers in ATD might be more
>reflections of characters in that Mann work.
>
>Why do I think that without having read it?, you sensible ones ask?
>!) Because of OBAs Magic Mountain allusions, it seems.
>2) Because I do know BBrooks is a long novel about the decline of a family
>----on Pynchon's mind and part of AtD, desert-changed, imho.
>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:32:17 PM
>Subject: Re: from The Recognitions
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>-----Original Message-----
>>From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
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>>Reef reckless, Frank reasonable, Kit religious--Brothers K no
>>doubt--Kit=Misha, Frank=Ivan, Reef=Dimitri?--not an exact
>>correspondence, just a thought
>>
>
>Any time there are three brothers, a Dostoyevsky alarm goes off, but in this case, it's hard to justify.  Reef may be akin to the impulsive Dmitri; Kit is someone who desperately wants to be religious (mathematically speaking) but has some doubts, similar to Alyosha; but reasonable old Frank akin to tormented intellectual Ivan?  No way!  There's no place in D.'s universe for "reasonable."  The Lake/Deuce couple make an interesting Smerdyakov, though.
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>Laura
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